August 13, 2025 | 19 Av 5785
MILWAUKEE – Israelis came to town this month and got to know us a bit. Here’s what they learned: America is not a cushy place where one can avoid the cost of being Jewish. When delegates from northeast Israel; St Paul, Minn.; and Milwaukee gathered here last month to make plans for more Israeli-American relationship […]
It’s become a common occurrence in recent years for liberal or left-of-center groups, either online or off, to get caught up in heated disagreements about Israel. This happened with the original group that founded the Women’s March during Donald Trump’s first term, leading to its implosion, and in 2021, when a large Facebook group for […]
Tuesday, July 8 New Moon Soundbath A unique experience that harmoniously blends the ancient tradition of Rosh Chodesh with the healing power of sound. Members $25. Community $30. July 8, 7:15 – 8:30 p.m. Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center – Studio B, 6255 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Whitefish Bay. Register at JccMilwaukee.org/newmoon. Contact: […]
Welcome to the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle’s annual Standing Up Against Hate special section. I proposed that we launch this special section several years ago. I had no idea how relevant it would become. For this year, at a time of consternation and heightened antisemitism, I’d like to share a list of people around me whom […]
There is general agreement that silence in the face of everyday hate is not helpful. Elie Wiesel, the renowned survivor and conscience of the Holocaust, taught us that. He pointed out that silence and indifference help the perpetrators of undue hatred because it unwittingly condones it. Although the Beatles sang “All You Need is Love,” […]
Cantor Martin Levinson, right, and religious education director and teacher Carrie Barbakoff led children in song at Congregation Emanu-El of Waukesha, on Sunday morning, May 4. As in synagogues everywhere, they greeted the children in Hebrew: “Boker tov!” (“Good morning!”) Photo by Rob Golub.
Built on the foundation of the annual Community Passover Food Drive, Good Deeds Day – Milwaukee was a full day of community-wide volunteering. The day was held April 6th, 2025, organized locally by Tikkun Ha-Ir, Harry & Rose Samson Family Jewish Community Center, and Milwaukee Jewish Federation. With opportunities for all ages and abilities both […]
Ted Neitzke IV, who is not Jewish, had never heard directly from a Holocaust survivor. An educator, Neitzke had read extensively about the genocide. He researched. He wrote. But it was all, as he said, “through one-dimensional, breathless texts.” Then he met southeastern Wisconsin’s Eva Zaret, a survivor. Zaret, of Budapest, Hungary, shared her experience […]
Back in mid-April, the Nathan and Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center teamed up with Wisconsin teacher Maria Prust to host a Holocaust education event, featuring a survivor and a child of one, at Wausau’s Grand Theater. The event drew more than 800 students from several districts in the central part of the state. Prust […]
The program Student to Student dates back to 1992, when it was created by the Jewish Community Relations Council in St. Louis. It aims to fight antisemitism by having students talk to other students, including some who might have little previous familiarity with Jewish people, to foster understanding. Twelve students recently entered the Milwaukee Jewish […]
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